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It was made in … 75 The story of stuff 06 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS Read again and complete the table. Which ideas about each object do you think are correct or incorrect? Talk together. Match the descriptions, 1–6, with pictures A–C on p. 74. Answer the following questions in groups, then compare your ideas. Which sentence, 1 or 2, is used in the paragraph about the Voynich Manuscript? 1 Wilfred Voynich discovered this strange book. (active) 2 This strange book was discovered by Wilfred Voynich. (passive) Why does the writer use the passive? Is the writer more interested in the book or Wilfred Voynich? Complete the sentences in the table with the correct form of be . Choose one object in your classroom. Describe it and make the others guess what it is. Write 80–100 words about one of your documents (e.g. student card, passport, club membership card, …). Include the following points: Find and underline nine more examples of the passive in the text. material colours size the information it contains Frascati, near Rome WRITING 14 Voynich Manuscript Baghdad Battery Saqqara Bird Place found When found Size Age 11 10 VoCabULaRY 12 a Describing objects GRaMMaR 15 a Passives 1 It’s light yellow. 2 It’s small but thick, with 235 pages. 3 It’s 25 by 18 cm. 1 What’s the opposite of light in sentence 1? 2 Which things in your classroom are made of the materials in the box? 4 It’s made of clay. 5 It’s about 18 cm across . 6 It weighs about 40 g. b cotton glass leather metal paper plastic stone wood SPEakING 13 Grammar reference and practice, p. 153. Present simple passive: am / is / are + past participle Past simple passive: was / were + past participle Some people think it (1) written in an unknown, secret language. The pages (2) illustrated with strange coloured pictures. Many experts believe it (3) made in Europe. It seems possible that electric batteries (4) used in the ancient world. b b 16 a Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv